Crossword for Sat, 4/Feb/2012

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Across
1: See, you are a cad. (3)

3: Heavy metal group X (4)

5: Devastation when head is cut off before a party - it may be eaten as first course (7)

8: Took a load off awfully thin ledge (9)

9: Kitty's way of saying loudly, 'I hurt'? (5)

11: PIcture lines as in visions. (7)

12: Coolest sort of cats (7)

14: To restrain a small child that is not up. (2, 3, 4)

15: Five kills one. (3)

16: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

17: Oil depots destroyed ocean habitats (4,5)

19: Resident's web terminal missing (7)

20: Proper wordplay describing actress Moreno (7)

21: Tendon's abnormal growth is in remission (5)

23: Wanting lean candidates in favour (5,4)

24: Declare leniency even heartless to be this! (7)

25: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

26: Call for help oddly stops (3)
Down
1: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

2: Heading off with child leading (7)

3: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

4: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

5: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

6: Rohmer hiding unit of Resistance (3)

7: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

10: Stupidly sits in ice, snow with Packers fans? (13)

12: Upset top duo; I went and confessed (5,2,2,2)

13: Quite put out, doctor axes red tape (11)

16: Diabolical cast in a play (7)

18: Gets in boats at sea (7)

22: Gained a hearing (3)

23: Pen extracts articles from satay (3)




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